Jerry Quotes

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

Creativity is the opposite of TV

This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.

Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

You know that a plan was dreamed up by politicians and pollsters - and not by, oh, anyone who knows what they are talking about - when the numbers are nice and round with a catchy ring to them.

In the arts there are many right answers.

The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.

I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.

All knowledge is self-reflective.

I feel like tiny bird with a big song!

The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.

I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives.

If they won't stop when you ask them nicely, they don't stop when you demonstrate to them what they're doing is wrong, then they should be stopped using whatever means are necessary.

Fear is an effective factor in altering behavior.

Whatever it takes to stop someone from abusing animals is certainly morally acceptable

The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes on in these animal laboratories.

I am personally not advocating violence. I am simply saying that it is a morally acceptable tactic and it may be useful in the struggle for animal liberation. I don't know.

If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.

Things are picking up...It's not going to make this thing go away... don't think you're going to find anybody deterred...There's a lot of people willing to die for the cause.

I think that violence and nonviolence are not moral principles, they’re tactics.

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.

I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

I know everybody. I make friends easily. I'm a gregarious guy, I'm open, I'm easy to get to know - I don't lock myself in an ivory tower. So I like people; I enjoy people.

Talented people have to do what they do. Someone can criticize but you do what you do.

Money! They go together. Franchise; money. Money; franchise.

I'm a good party guest...the problem is, I feel like I'm working all the time. "Give us an Elvis Presley story! Give us a Frank Sinatra story!"

In New York City there are interesting characters and there are interesting stories. There's a story on every street corner. I love it. I think that's what really attracts me to making films.

I do characters. I believe in that. I think people are interesting. Now, everybody that you meet in New York City thinks that their life is a movie.

The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

We need military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason

I've had great success being a total idiot.

Elaine: Ugh, I hate people.Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.

I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

Keep your feet firmly planted on the ground...don't let your ego run out of control and convince you that you are better than anyone else

Never abandon your personal message. No matter what comes your way, remain dedicated to that which you hold close to your heart

Every failure if you let it is an opportunity to reinvent yourself and move forward.

Seems like everything lead up to this dayand it's just like every day that's ever been.Sun goin' up and then the sunit goin' down.

…this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.

Who should open the door of success for you...you that's who!